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Syrian army forces shoot down militants' combat drone in northern Latakia
2018-09-24
[PRESSTV] Syrian government forces have intercepted and targeted an unmanned aerial vehicle as it flew in the skies over the western coastal province of Latakia, where Russia has an air base and from which its fighter jets conduct Arclight airstrikes against ISIS bandidos turbans and foreign-sponsored Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
bandidos turbans in the conflict-plagued Arab country.

Informed sources, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, told Syria's pro-government and Arabic-language al-Masdar news agency that Syrian troops shot down the armed drone using a ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft auto-cannon.

The sources added that members of the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant, now something else...
, formerly known as al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front, Takfiri terrorist group had launched the unmanned aerial vehicle from the neighboring Death Eater-held Idlib province.

The development came only two days after a Death Eater drone attack left eight Syrian soldiers injured in the northern part of Latakia province.

The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria said the assault was launched by a group of foreign-backed Death Eaters, based in the city of Jisr al-Shughur, against a group of Syrian troopers near the town of Qala'at Marza.

Posted by:Fred

#1  They've mistaken it for Ilyushin?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-09-24 03:49  

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